Picture Australia Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.
National Library's Preservation policy & procedures A fundamental role of the National Library is to preserve Australia's documentary heritage, and to make sure it is available for people to use for as long as possible. Collecting material is only one step towards achieving this - the material also needs to be looked after if it is to remain useable. The aim of the National Library's preservation program is to maintain and preserve items according to their use and their significance.
Digital History: a guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past on the web This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium
Picture Queensland Picture Queensland includes images digitised from the photographic collections of the State Library of Queensland's John Oxley Library and Queensland cultural institutions.
Capture your collection: Small museum version Welcome to the Small Museum version of the "Capture Your Collections" training course. This new online training course has been specially designed to help volunteers, curators and managers working in regional, local and specialist museums, to better manage the process of image digitisation.
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Picture Australia Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.
Digitisation of traditional format Library materials From the National Library of Australia
National Library's Preservation policy & procedures A fundamental role of the National Library is to preserve Australia's documentary heritage, and to make sure it is available for people to use for as long as possible. Collecting material is only one step towards achieving this - the material also needs to be looked after if it is to remain useable. The aim of the National Library's preservation program is to maintain and preserve items according to their use and their significance.
Step-by-step guide to Oral HIstory © Judith Moyer 1993, Revised 1999
Oral History Association of Australia
Basic guide into the world of Digital Imaging The purpose of this site is to provide a simple guide into the world of digital imaging.
Digital History: a guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past on the web This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium
Picture Queensland Picture Queensland includes images digitised from the photographic collections of the State Library of Queensland's John Oxley Library and Queensland cultural institutions.
Capture your collection: Small museum version Welcome to the Small Museum version of the "Capture Your Collections" training course. This new online training course has been specially designed to help volunteers, curators and managers working in regional, local and specialist museums, to better manage the process of image digitisation.
State Library of Tasmania - Tasmanian Images
Flickr Flickr is a way to get your photos to the people who matter to you
DIgital Prerservation Tutorial Cornell University course
Introduction to Imaging (Revised Edition) Research at the Getty. Image database tutorial